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Page 27
... characterized as long or short by different writers . Fournier rejects both Brown's and Fries's primary divisions , but proposes a new one founded on the position of the lowest glume of the spikelet , next to the main axis in Chlorideæ ...
... characterized as long or short by different writers . Fournier rejects both Brown's and Fries's primary divisions , but proposes a new one founded on the position of the lowest glume of the spikelet , next to the main axis in Chlorideæ ...
Page 34
... characterized by having only one empty glume below the flowering one , and by the constant reduction of the number of stamens to two . It has since , however , been as- certained that several species which cannot well be separated from ...
... characterized by having only one empty glume below the flowering one , and by the constant reduction of the number of stamens to two . It has since , however , been as- certained that several species which cannot well be separated from ...
Page 36
... characterized solely by the having only a single empty glume below the flowering one . It was first proposed as a genus by Nees for the Paspalum malacophyllum , Trin . , which has all the habit and floral and other characters of ...
... characterized solely by the having only a single empty glume below the flowering one . It was first proposed as a genus by Nees for the Paspalum malacophyllum , Trin . , which has all the habit and floral and other characters of ...
Page 38
... characterized by the posi- tion of the spikelets on the alternate margins of the narrow , somewhat flexuose rhachis of the spike , so as to be rather di- stichous than secund , and by their direction , the back of the flower- ing glume ...
... characterized by the posi- tion of the spikelets on the alternate margins of the narrow , somewhat flexuose rhachis of the spike , so as to be rather di- stichous than secund , and by their direction , the back of the flower- ing glume ...
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... characterize a section or genus Uro- chloa . It is , however , an uncertain character , both in Eriochloa and in Panicum . Nearly twenty supposed species of Eriochloa have been described ; but the greater number of them are scarcely ...
... characterize a section or genus Uro- chloa . It is , however , an uncertain character , both in Eriochloa and in Panicum . Nearly twenty supposed species of Eriochloa have been described ; but the greater number of them are scarcely ...
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Agrosteæ Agrostis allied American species Andropogoneæ appear articulation Asiatic Australian species Beauv Beauvois Benth botanists branches bristles caryopsis characterized characters chiefly Chlorideæ closely cluster comprises Crypsis dense Desv distinguished Doell dorsal awn East-Indian Eriochrysis European extratropical fertile flower Festuca Flora Flora Australiensis flowering glume forming Fourn Fournier fruiting glume genera genus glabrous Gluma Gramineæ grasses Griseb groups habit hairs helopus hermaphrodite Hochst included inflorescence Isachne Kunth Linn lodicules lower empty glumes lowest glume male flower Mexican Munro narrow nearly Nees Nees's nerves North-American number of species Old World Oryzeæ outer empty glumes outer glumes pair palea Paniceæ panicle Panicum Paspalum pedicel peduncle plant Poaceae Pollinia Presl proposed rarely reduced regions rhachilla rhachis Rottboellia sæpius scarcely sessile short single slender small spikelets sometimes South Africa specimens Spiculæ spike-like spikelets spikes Spodiopogon Sporobolus stamens Steud Steudel subtribe terminal tribe Trin Trinius tropical Africa unawned usually whilst